To:HIS SISTER MARIA

Published:First published in 1929 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 11.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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MariaIlyinichna Ulyanova,Kostomarovsky Street, 15, Apt. 336,Syromyatniki,Moscow,Russia

Uljanow,Distelweg, 11,Berne (Switzerland)

February 9, 1915

DearManyasha,

Ihave received two pamphlets from you—by Oganovsky
and Maslov. Many thanks! They are both rotten
opportunists of the most harmful type (can there be anybody in
agreement with them and with Plekhanov? It could not be
worse). It is, however, extremely useful to know what they
are writing. I shall therefore be extremely grateful if you
send me things of this sort and also clippings from
newspapers (and magazines) dealing with similar subjects. A
long time ago (in the August or September issues), Y.
Smirnov, for instance, wrote something extremely shallow inRusskiye Vedomostiabout voting for credits, etc. I saw that,
but I know nothing further about the literary activities
of this man and others like him.

Herewe are well off for foreign newspapers and books
in the libraries. We are living fairly well. Berne is a small
and dull but quite civilised town. Y.V. is ill with
influenza.

Thereis a growth in the anti-chauvinist mood among
the Germans; there has been a split in Stuttgart and in
Frankfurt am
Main.[3]An anti-chauvinist publicationLichtstrahlen[4]is appearing in Berlin.

Ifit will not be too much trouble, and if you should
happen to be somewhere near (please do not go there speciallyas there isabsolutelyno hurry) please find out from the
Granats who accepted my article for the Encyclopaedic
Dictionary, whether they sent the fee to M.T. Yelizarov
(as I
asked),[1]and whether it is possible to obtain some
more work there for the Encyclopaedic Dictionary. I have
written to the
secretary[2]about this but he has not
answered me.

Wishingyou all the best—regards from me and from
Nadya.

Yours,V. Ulyanov

[1]Thearticle was entitled “Karl Marx” and the fee for it was
handed to Lenin’s sister Maria, personally.—Ed.                 
—Lenin

[2]CollectedWorks, Vol. 36, p. 317.—Ed.

[3]Leninhere refers to the split in the German Social-Democratic
Party between the majority, the opportunist Centrists who followed
Kautsky, and the radical Left wing.

[4]Lichtstrahlen(Rays of Light)—a monthly journal published by
Left Social-Democrats (the International Socialists of Germany)
under the editorship of J. Borhardt. It was published irregularly
from 1913 to 1921 in Berlin.